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Option for highlighting lyrics
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Description
Your idea
Many singers are using marker pens to highlight their lyrics in order to find them quicker, especially in larger scores with many voices.
This feature it should be added as an additional, direct selection option, e.g. in the frame area,
with three highlighting options:
- Whole lyric line is marked (most important)
- Every single syllable is marked (MS 4.2 feature)
- Every whole word is marked (separated syllables are united)
Problem to be solved
MS 4.2 can't highlight lyrics, it has to be done with exported pdf in external pdf-Apps.
Coloured lyrics, as they are possible to use in MS 4.2, are more difficult to read
Prior art
It would be helpful to put a color picker with few colors like in Goodnotes
or in LibreOffice or other office apps
Additional context
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points; begin by locating lyric rendering and the frame-area selection UI in MuseScore. Define the highlight modes and color-picker behavior, then verify that lyric lines, syllables, and whole words display correctly in scores.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- design, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100